Keith Olbermann’s Phony Education

by Chris Jones on March 5, 2009 · 10 comments

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If you can stand to watch Keith Olbermann’s ridiculous show on any day of the week, you’ll notice he’s fond of reminding his tiny audience that he went to Cornell. He likes to pretend that he has some kind of intellectual superiority over other people when in truth he’s just a sportscaster pretending to be a political pundit.

In her new column, Ann Coulter reveals the truth behind Olbermann’s supposed Ivy League education from Cornell.

…Keith is constantly lying about his nonexistent "Ivy League" education, boasting to Playboy magazine, for example: "My Ivy League education taught me how to cut corners, skim books and take an idea and write 15 pages on it, and also how to work all day at the Cornell radio station and never actually go to class."

Except Keith didn’t go to the Ivy League Cornell; he went to the Old MacDonald Cornell.

The real Cornell, the School of Arts and Sciences (average SAT: 1,325; acceptance rate: 1 in 6 applicants), is the only Ivy League school at Cornell and the only one that grants a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Keith went to an affiliated state college at Cornell, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (average SAT: about that of pulling guards at the University of South Carolina; acceptance rate: 1 of every 1.01 applicants).
Olbermann’s incessant lying about having an "Ivy League education" when he went to the non-Ivy League ag school at Cornell would be like a graduate of the Yale locksmithing school boasting about being a "Yale man."

Ouch — that’s gonna leave a mark. For the record, Ann Coulter graduated with honors from Cornell University School of Arts & Sciences and received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

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  • Alan Baren

    My wife and I are both ‘84 Cornell grads. My wife is currently a diabetes educator and social worker for pediatrics and I work in technology for a bank in New York City. We take tremendous pride in our alma mater. Just last weekend, we traveled up to New Haven to support the hockey team against Yale.

    I understand Ann is just a shock-jock seeking public attention, but her bashing on the Ag School versus Arts & Science truly mars the imagine of Cornell and the unity of its students to the public. We of course bashed other schools in jest during our hockey cheers as students (”Screw BU, Harvard too!”) and maybe had a little internal fun in jest with hotellees, but it was always meant in fun – not sincere or mean heartedly. We certainly would never bash ourselves (which is what Ann Coulter has done) in a larger public forum reaching millions nationally. It is a shame she does not have more respect for the University she attended. She is truly an embarrassment to the university.

    I am really disgusted in Coulter’s public behavior and the lack of pride her has in her University as well as her school.

  • http://www.thehotjoints.com/ Chris Jones

    The person you should be disgusted with is the that lying hack Keith Olbermann.

  • TheDude

    You want to know who I’m disgruntled with? It’s a two-parter. Dr Phil, and the Cookie Monster!

  • Jaime Sanchez

    Hey Keith,

    You should include yourself in your “Worst Person in the World”!!……….

  • harryseeword

    Alan,

    Congrats on your true Ivy League education. You, like many others, seem to be taking Coulter out of context here. Keith Olbermann brags about his educational pedigree, and uses it as an excuse to belittle and berate others. He should be ashamed of himself.

  • Cy

    I have one word I would use to describe what I feel when I watch the twisted and consistently hatefilled viewpoints of Olbermann and Maddow: DISGUST.

  • Terri

    Cornell is Cornell. There are no “afflilated” colleges, departments or programs at Cornell. Keith went to the real Cornell, he graduated with a degree from Cornell, and Ann’s batshit crazy to say otherwise.

  • Blue Dog

    K.O. got his B.S. degree at the Cornell online school for Communication Arts, so As Usual Anne Coulter was right…..

  • cookie

    good post, thank you.

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